2020 September 7 morning

 

   Gordon Hart writes:  Last night, (Saturday  September 5), I turned on the porch lights for a couple of hours, and I saw 5 Neoalcis californiaria, 6 or 8 small moths (crambid snout moths and tortricid moths I think ) and one larger geometrid, Nepytia phantasmaria.  

 

   Jeremy Tatum remarks:  The only previous photograph of this species from the Victoria area on Invertebrate Alert since it started in 2010 was one – also by Gordon at his home – on 2014 September 23, although Libby photographed several in Port Alberni in 2017. 

 

Nepytia phantasmaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Gordon Hart

 

   Jeremy Tatum writes:  I was thinking of limiting the number of photographs of Neoalcis californiaria – one of our most frequently photographed insects – when the first moth to appear for weeks at my apartment back door arrived, and of course it had to be N. californiaria, and I couldn’t resist the temptation of photographing it.  So much for my attempt at placing a limit!  It seems to be one of our very commonest moths.

 

Neoalcis californiaria (Lep.: Geometridae)  Jeremy Tatum